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He does state that when (not if) we move beyond the current system, distributed ledgers will become a useful tool.

I consider blockchain, and Ethereum-style mechanisms, as technologies that will prove extremely useful once private property in the means of production ends. But, on their own, these technologies will not liberate us from the extractive power of the few.

I use this same setup but with a requirements folder. Inside I have a base.txt, dev.txt and tests.txt where dev.txt starts with '-r tests.txt', etc.

It's very handy for having different environments but doesn't lend itself to a lockfile.

I'm not sure it really works like this. Suppose you've spent 10 years becoming a master java developer, and now all the investment is going into python. You're going to better than the boot-campers after 1 week and a master developer after 3 months, whereas the others will still need years to catch up.

I think it's worth keeping a loose working knowledge of all the mainstream software in your field, but don't really go deep until you need it.

Not all shows need portability so why stop them all? Desktop applications absolutely, but It's trivial to build, deploy and operate docker containers on servers.

Nothing is absolute, of course if you take it far enough the seams of the argument tear but there is merit to it.

A senior browser frontend developer is likely to pick up mobile development quite quickly.

Likewise someone who's been doing Spring Boot Java backends for years and is proficient with databases, caching, etc. Isn't necessarily going to find it hard to switch to a serverless nodejs paradigm.

The network card person is probably able to handle the embedded microwave oven.

Etc.

Matrix is an open protocol and anyone's welcome to build a front-end, inspired by Telegram, that your mother would be happy using.

Perhaps you meant the Element client?

As English speakers we often take for granted acronyms such as DB or even USA. For foreigners these can also be inscrutable.

HashiCorp – S1 5 years ago

There are many scenarios where it's useful, but I will illustrate a simple and important one.

When you do a rolling upgrade, a new service must be assigned to an available port different to the existing one. After starting you'll probably run some health checks, and once satisfied you'll want to switch traffic over to the new instance and halt the old. How do you tell the rest of your infrastructure what the new port is? Service discovery.